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Old attitudes still cast shadow over HIV fight
By Victoria Knight
Georgia Health News | May 2017
"The 'H' stands for human, not homosexual," says Frank Tant, as he perches on the edge of a worn brown couch in the main room at the AIDS Resource Council in Rome. He's talking about the 'H' in human immunodeficiency virus, identified more than 30 years ago as the cause of AIDS. The disease itself had been recognized only a few years before.

Report: Charity clinic helps more than its patients
By Jim Lichtenwalter
Georgia Health News | June 2017
A report by University of Georgia researchers shows that an Athens-area charitable health clinic is helping to reduce the number of unnecessary ER visits.The report examined 185 new patients who began receiving health care from the Mercy Health Center from Feb. 1 to July 31, 2015, and continued to do so for at least a year and a half.